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Recursive acronym
About: Recursive acronym is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3 publications have been published within this topic receiving 36 citations.
Papers
1 Jan 2003
TL;DR: The Free Software Foundation is best known for its sponsorship of the GNU project, a recursive acronym which stands for "GNU'S Not Unix".
Abstract: The Free Software Foundation is best known for its sponsorship of the GNU project. GNU is a recursive acronym which stands for "GNU'S Not Unix". The GNU Project was founded in 1984 to develop a complete free Unix-compatible operating system, to be called GNU. "Complete" means covering the full range of components of Unix--kernel (q.v.), libraries, shells, editors, compilers, development tools, mailer, and the rest. "Free," here, means that users have certain freedoms, including the freedom to use the system for any purpose, and to redistribute copies, either verbatim or modified, either gratis or for a fee. As a practical matter, the freedom to modify entails availability of source code.
40 citations
TL;DR: The following article was written in the style of the writer and cognitive scientist Doug Hofstadter by the computer program "EWI", which came up with some 25 new and highly diverse "Hofstadter articles", one of which is given below.
Abstract: The following article was written in the style of my good friend the writer and cognitive scientist Doug Hofstadter. It was written not by a human being, but by my computer program "EWI" (an acronym for "Experiments in Writing Intelligence"). EWI was fed the texts of two of Hofstadter's books — namely, Godel, Escher, Bach (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1980) and Metamagical Themas — and then, following its code, EWI carefully analyzed these two books for their uniquely Hofstadterian stylistic elements and features, after which it recombined these stylistic elements in new fashions. EWI thereby came up with some 25 new and highly diverse "Hofstadter articles", one of which is given below, and at the very end the article is followed by a brief commentary about EWI and its output, by Hofstadter himself.
2 citations
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1 Jan 2008
TL;DR: The dynamics of Open Source as mentioned in this paper The stage reached by Unix operating system through quantitative accumulation imposed transition to a new generation, made by the GNU Project (the recursive acronym GNU's Not Unix), the initiative of Richard Stallman (1984), who took the results of new operating systems theory and the theory of programming media, obtaining a new prod
Abstract: The dynamics of Open source The stage reached by Unix operating system through quantitative accumulation imposed transition to a new generation, made by the GNU Project (the recursive acronym GNU's Not Unix), the initiative of Richard Stallman (1984), who took the results of new operating systems theory and the theory of programming media, obtaining a new prod
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